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i. MAILS. AR ,--x Cottenbuub, t Dublin, 2 Waterford. Gottenbutgh, INaterford. OF STOCKS 1 1 04 DAY AT TWELV C O'CLOCK Com:o4 for Opening THE SUN. 501.114 QUIS otcriz 11.i15Ut.1 ACIDIAT ? L 0 N D 0 N, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 180 a. Tins morning another Gottenburgh Mail arrived, The Intelligence from Turkey 'seems to announce the speedy fall of that once powerful Empire. The Turkish Army has again been' defeated by the Ser. vians in a decisive. a&ion ; but what is more im portant, the Russians, so far from making any pre, parations to evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia, pur., suant to the terms of the Armistice, have reinforced their Army in. those Provinces; their advanced posts have been' strengthened, and all intercourse with Turkey strialy prohibited.. An article from Copen hagen states, that the Russian naval force in the Harbour of Cronstadt amounts to 16 Sail of the nne, ,and 125, Gun-boats. Count MEIN, who came over -from 'France in a Ftag of Tijuce 'from Calais last Tgesday se'nnight, yotehlay left .town, for the purpoie 'of returning to France. Some of cotemporarkes have yen- tured assure the public, tlyt a • Negotiation has Veen for some time pending ktweep this Country • and France, 'and have' stated the points on which it is supposed to have broken off. Wedo not profess to be acquainted with the nature ( ) Idle Correspondence which has for same' time been carried on by means of Flags of 'Duey, but .it is by no me,ancimprobable that BuowAvitura may have (nada' an overture at Negotiation, under the Mediatien of Austria ; not certainly under an impression that such a proposition could tend to peace, but for the purpose of embar ,rassing the British Government, and of inducing the people of France to believe that hu is , desirous . af peace, It certainly could not Rleupfased far a ma. meat, that( Great Britain could 'consent to negotiate under the mediation of Austria, situated as that Power is with regard to france. We mentioned' yesterday a report that the Non- - impoltation At in America had. been carried into effect. Other accounts front America, of a late date, induce us to hope that the Americans have not been quite so rash as, to tletertiiine on such a mea sure. Captain RossiTEß, of the Ltrura, just at rive(' at Bristol, left New York on the 14th ult. only states, that previous to his departure the ac couots front Washington imported, that Congress were debating ou the subjed with closed doors, and that the people were anxious to know the ultimate decision. Capt. BLAND, of the Martha, who left Norfolk on the 16th` ult. states, that ,the deter minatien of Congress was expated to take place on tho . 1311), and to be .known two days af ter:at Norfolk. Mr. MUNRO; on board the Au gusta, had reached 'Norfolk on uit. • The ikvenge had reached New York, 'from Cherbuxgh, two days before the departure of the Laura. Inv ; mediately after her arrival a report prevailed that Gen. AuxsTuotio bad informed the American Go vernment that' he had received dispatches from France, signifying, that if the United States con tinoed to admit an accredited Ambassador from Great Britain, Franca would consider stielt a men. sore as : tantamount to a Declaration of War, and would coildna herself accordingly. 'We cannot but still hope that, as all the restrklious upon the cont. merce of Neutral States which the British Govern... meat has been ()blip(' to adopt, have been extorted as a measure ofjoSt retaliation, by the violence of 800, VarA an, the Americans will have good sense enough to discriminate the real aggressor from that State which his reltidantly resorted to a system ren dered absolutely . necessary upon the positive ground. of sc I F•dele lice; A report wps yesterday prevaletn in the City, that At - . Rose had arrived in America, and bad been in / suited by the populace on his landing I'llere does not appeLtr to be any fotodation for this report, from all the inquiries we haver wade on the subjeCt. Campion Arrocd Cutter arrived on Mo;iday at .Portsmonth from Buenos Ayres,;. Slie.left the River Plata on The 't!.stil of September, having on board the British Hostages, Captain - Fr'f6!lloPl:, CAR ROLL, and Haotturotq, uptkititts of .v,uo soldiefi, inci`p..lly belonging to the 7I at Regiment, The Campion touched at St. Helena on, the it th of November, and left :30 soldiers belon4inz to , the Corps in that Island : she sailed from St. Heleoa an the 17th November; at Which time the .dgincou,st, of 64 guns, Capt. Was w.alrog , at that Island far convey. The Campion camu s U'airtel, and bad au board Lieut. THOMA.Si of the Navy, : Agent for Trgisports.' rIorrrATURGII MAIL. 'lB.—lrunieiLately alter 11Iajesty arrived in . this Capital, the following Pro clamation Was iisue.(l:A4, We, GusrAvus Anou.nus, by the Grace of God King. of Sweden, Br.c. do herewith. make.. known, that having under Divine Providence return ed safe to this Capital, we have thought proper to ordain that the fun&ions of the. Regency, which we . bad appointed for the time of our absence, should cease; in-further confirmation of this public notice, we have personally signed the same, and ordered our Royal Seal to be affixed thereto. " Stockholm Castle, Dec. 24, 1807. " GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS (L. S.) " M. ROSENSLADi." VIENNA, Dec. 2.--,Our Court Gazette contains the follou iug article from Turkey :—.The tranquillity Which prevailed on the frontiers of Bosnia bas again been disturbed. About the end of September the . cordon of Turkish Troops, formed on the Winks of the Drina and Buzawa, was reinforced .with. 9000 men,, by which means its strength was , incre a sed to 25,000. The Servians were no sooner informed of this circumstance, than they crossed the Buzawa, and gave battle to the Turks on the 15th Qaoher t in which the latter were completely routed. So far from the Russians making the least preprations to evacuate Moldavia and Wallachia, pursuant to the. Armistice concluded, another Russian Corps is on its March thither from Mohilow, under the com mand of Major-General Prince Oto.ows, who is already arrived in Bucharest, the head-quarters of the Geperal in Chief PrincePaosonowsm. The • Russian advanced posts have bx; , en lately considerably reinforced, and all correspondence and commercial intercourse with Turkey are strictly prohibited." CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. to.—The Ottoman Porte has, by a Lett written to the Prussian Cepa, given full satisigtion for the late condu4 of ihe Ottoman Ministry towards Baron Sto-r VON Pile s/Len, and no doubts are entertained by the , speedy eedy return of the Prussian Embassy. PnICAPItI, the late ringleader-of the Rebels in Romelia, has been taken and beheaded, with about thirty of hisaccom. pikes. CopeNniqert, DEC. 26.—Lettera from Crest stadt state, that id Sail of the Line, and 125 Gun- boats, are lying in the Port of that City. We learn from Cassel that the celebrated Castle, near that City, formerly called " Williatu'i Height," has now reCei ved. the name of "Napoleon's Height.'i, The Diplowatic Corps at the Court of Holland is gone from the Hague to Utrecht. The. Yrench Army in Dalmatia seems destined for very. important operations, Some are cf opinion that it is to occupy the Turkish Provinces ; but; ac cording to others, it is to march through Constanti nople and Egypt to 33engal. Letters from Hanover inform us, that the King , ' doni of Westphalia k divided into the follo.Witig Departments 'The Department of the Fulda, including Lower Hesse and raderbom i 2d, The Department of the Weser, containing Minden, Itavensberg, &c. ; ;td, The Department of the Verret comprising Upper Hesse, &c. ; 4th, The Pepart ment of the Leine, including Gottingen, &e.; bth, The Hai; Department, composed of the Principality of Orubenhagen and the Upper Haiz ; etb, The Upper pepartment, containing Hildesheim, Elze, Schuningeu., Goalar, and several other towns and districts which formerly belonged to the Duchy of .Brunswick; 7 tll,. The Department, including the Principalities of Halberstadt and 13,1ankenburglt, tiro. ; Bth, The Department of Eichsfeld, containing the Principality of Eich.sfeld, &c. IVEIP KIAGDOAT IPESTPII4L.M. PROCiLANtATION. CASSEL, DEC. I7.—We, JEttomn NAPoLuort,by the Grace. of Clod and the Consitntion, Kin Of Webtphalia, French Prince, tic. etc. to our good and faithful Buhjetits, and Inhgbitants of our kingdom of Westphalia, greeting " We'srpflaliano, Di - vine Providence has pointed this aga in order to . re-puite your seattered*Prci vinces under one august thstitution,.together with neighbouring fatuities, though strangers to 6 , ,g11 - other. . • . e• 1 come to occrtpy this Throne, prep wed by victory, raised by, the assent of the greatest Powers of Europe, founded, on a title not less sacred, by your real interest: • " Too long ha.; your country suffered from the pretensioni.of families and the intrigues of Cabi nets : you were - exposed to all the calamities of Wars, and you were excluded froth all the benefits of Peace. Some of your towns only reaped the fiarren honour of annexing their names to Treaties, in which nothing was overlooked bait.tho well-being of the people who inhabited them. . " How widely different are the results of the *ars stirred up against the :most ftlead of .my. Hous© ! it is . tor nations that NAPOLEON bill CO ilOertid ; and each of the Treaties he has concluded,, is a step farther towards 'the end proposed by his mighty genius, Or givinz, to entire nations a politl cal existence, Governments and. Laws dilate d by wisdom,, the emablishtnent to each of them of a country, and the derehtlion hereafter of none in that 491oral* nullity, in which they were eq4ally unable either to steerslear of Wm., anal avail them. selves of Peace. 1. • •: 7 • if Westphalians !—Such was the issue of the bat tles of Marengo, of Austerlitz, 01 1:11,1 ; such ,now is for you the result of the memorable Treaty of Tilsit, On that day you obtained the first of bles sings, a Country.—Far be now removed from your medication those scattered dominations; the last -re suit of the 1041 system, :which prepared a Mister for each City-==these different interests are now to form but one—your Master now is the Law—your Protector, the Monarch, who is to cause it,to, be respekted : henceforth you shall have no other. " Westphalians, you have got a Constinition adapted to your manners and to your interests ;_ it' is the fruit 61 the meditations of a great man, and the experience of a great nation its principles are in unison with the present state of the civilization of Europe, and are big with prospects of improvement, which will far overbalance the sacrifices which . this new order of things may impose on -some of you. You must, therefore, attach yourselves - to it with confidence, since upon it rests your liberty and your ` prosperity. " In ascending the Throne, I contratied the ob ligation of making you happy, and I will be faithful to it. • The equality of. the modes of religion shall be maintained, property assured and guaranteed.- I.'hus shall there be established between me and my peovie an alliance of wishes and interests, that shall never change. Westphalians, your Sovereign henceforward relies on your fidelity and inviolable attachment, if Given at our Royal Palace of Cassel, the 15th Pecenacr, 1807, and the first of our ReiBn, (Signed) " 41tODIE NATOLEOtt." A Decree of the 7th inst. publishes the Constitu tion of the Kingdom at Westphalia. The follow ing is the tenor of it " NArowtoN, by the Grace of Go 4 and the Con stitution, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, PrctetStor of the Confederacy of the Rhine, " Wishing to give a prompt execution to the igth Article of the Treaty of Tilsit, and establish fur the . ' Kingdom of Westphalia fundamental constitution's * which may assure the felicity of the .nations which: constitute it, and at the same time furnish the Sove reign, as member of the Confederacy of the Rhine, with the weans of concurring with the general safe, ty and prosperity, have deoreed and da decree as fellows ; Title I. Art. 1. The Kingdom of Westphalia is composed of the following States, viz.—the terri tory of Brunswick Wolfenbuttel, the part of the Altmark which' lies on the left Bank of the Elbe, the part of the district of Magdcburgh which lies on the left 'Bank of the Elbe, the territory of Halle, the distria of Hildeshiem, and the town of Goslar, the lands belonging to Halberstadt, .Hohenstein, and Quedlinburgh, the Earldom of Mansfeld, Eichsfeld, with Treffurth, Mulhausen, Nordhausen, the Earl, dory of Stolberg-Wernigerode, the territory of Hesse Cassel, with Itintelu and Schaumburg!), not includ' ing Hanau, and Katzenelbogen on the Rhine, the territory of Corvey, Gottingen, and Grubenhagen, with the lands which lie surrounded by Hohenstein and Elbingerode, the Bishoprick of Osnabruck, the Bishoprick of Paderborn, Minden, and Ravensburgh, the Earldom of Riezburgh-Kaunltz. . _ _ " a. We reserve to ourselves one moiety of the allo dial domains of tite princes, to be applied in furnish ing the redompences we have promised to the Offi cers of our atmies, who have rendered 'us the great est service in the present war. PossesSion shall be taken of these estates without delay by our intend ants, anti the proces verbal shall be drawn up con jointly with the Magistrates of the Countries before the Ist of December, 3'. The extraordinary mill tary contributioris,which have been demanded in these countries, shall be paid, or security for the payment given, before the ist day of Decetnber. - . •' - . -- ;; -- 4. Op the first of December the King of WEST, ritattA shall be put in possession of the Sovereignty of his territory, by Coinmissioners whom we will nominate. cf. Title 11. . 4.rt. The Kingdom of Westphalia forms a part of the Confederation of the Rhine : its contingapt shall be 25,000 men, viz. 20,000 infan try, saao cavalry, and 1500 artillery. " During the first year there shall be raised only IQ,OOO infantry, 2000 cavalry, and so artillery; the 1 , 4,500 others shall be furnished by . France, and 'hall be garrisoned at Magdeburg!). These 12,500 men shall be paid, maintained, and clothed by the King of WESTMALIA. "Title 111. Art. 6. The Kingdom of Westphalia 41111 1 1 bee IrorOdittiry in the male' heir* of the body of Prince JELO N F,' NAV G LEON, in the order of primoge niture, atick to, the perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants. ' • . " In clelaUlt of the legitimate descendants of Prince Jaaeit lA' NAPOLEON, the Throne of Westpha lia shall devolve upon us and our heirs and descend ant's either of our body c&r by adoption. " And in default of. these, to the lawful de scenditnts of Prince Jos#4in. Ni k rolsm's, King of Naples and Sicily._ _ And in default of these, to , the lawful de. scendants of Prince Louts NAroi.acm, King of Holland. Antliin'default of these latter, to the lawful de scendants of ' Prince JoAcu tat, Grand Duke of Berg and cleve#. • " 7. The King of WIiSTPHALIA and his family Are subjed, in all ilia respetty them; to the dispo sitions of the law respeaing the Imperial Family. " 8. In case of tnitiority, thy Regent of the kingdom skill be nominated by us, or our succes• sot's, in our quality of Chief of the Imperial F a mil y . ", He shall be chosen from among the Princes of the Royal Family. "The minority, of the King shall terminate At thi ;ego of 10. The King and Royal Family shall have for their support a revenue kart, entitled, " Rev . ctme °COI° Crown," amounting to the sum of five mil . lion of francs yearly. The revenue arising from the domain forests, and Li part of the domain lands,. is appiopriated to this pt4rpose. In case.the domAinirshould be Made. quart, the surplus shall be paid, monthly out (elite publW *matey." (To to centinNed.) NAVAL NEW $. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 11.--Arrived the A.lrtericaa Schooner Perseverance, of and from Marblehead' laden with sugar, bound to L'Orient, but warned of :the blockade by his Majesty's Ship Gibraltar. v.,..tirrived the Naiad French Lugger Privateer, pm% for 14 guns,. one only mounted, with 49 men;ciptured by La Seint. Frigate. Artived the Haniburgh Brig Henrietta, laden with wool, from. Bilboa, bound to London,; also the 1, Euryalut Frigate from the Fleet cruizing oft Cadiz, with Dispatches. Sailed the Ponume and Ateiqst Frigates en a I n , Arrived the Portnuese Brig Vincidor, Nuns, from Pernambuco, laden with indigo, &c. bound to Lisbon, detained by the Squadron under the cont. mind of Admiral Sir SIDNEY SMITE. PORTSMOUTH, JAW. le. —Arrived this day the Cempiox, FARMER, a Transport, from Buenos Ayres, last from St. Helena : sailed from Buenos Ayres 25th Sept. with 214 seamen, marines, and part of the 71st Regiment, which were made pri soners at Buenos Ayres at the time of its re•captur'e by the Spaniards. Left St. Helena the 17th No+ vember, at which time the Agincourt, of 74 gVel• and Star Southseaman, were lying there. Sag this day the Halifax Sloop of War, Capt. Lord 3. TOWN6IIVID, for Plymouth ; and Hearty Gun-brig, Lieut. W. WICKHAM, on a cruize: The Atote Frigate, Capt. LOZING. dropt down to St. Helen's, with her convoy for Plymouth, and will sail early to-nu/Tow morning, should the wind ,rontinue ,1 r L c" LivEßvool., JAN. i Martha Biand,CAPt; arrived here yesterday in r;.6 days from Vir' ginia,' and litingir Pipers to the teat Deo:mita , which contain nothing matetially nevt. The Car • tain slates tb4t Mr. blurota arrived there the night before he sailed, bpt that Mr. Rose bad notarrivetd, nor had he heard any thing of the Ottira Frigate, other acounts state that he had arrived. The 4)rdcr in Council recalling British swell from Co. it - eign . service had beep received there. SUSSEX, JAN. 9. This morning James Smith, who was apprehend. ed about a fortnight since, on suspicion of being the HMI who has .committed the numetoos r o bberies in the neighbourhood of Emaworth and Havant, WA re-exatnined at Havant, before the Hey. J. Nottitta and W. Garor, Esq. Justices. It appeared on, ths exaudnation, that on the morning of the evening that Messrs. HAYLES and Sbtoor., were 'robb•Ws Smith was busy cleaning his gun, and at the titnei of that robbery he was from home, A great coat; exiialy answering the deseription of the one worn by the robber, was also afterwards hung._ to dry on 'Smith's premises. Mr. CHATFIELD, of flisworthl. who, it will be remembered, was so badly wounded by a footpad, said, that thegan produced.as . belonV lug to Smith, was very similar . to the one he Was shot at with, and that the shdt - Wliteli wounded him were of the same size as - these in the possession of Smith. It appeared that his neighbours in general. were very suspicious of him; and on the evening of the 17th of December, when three persons were robbed on the road between Havant and Etusworth, he waiiteen to return home about eight o'clock, with a gun on his Sluzulder. He had in .more than Poo instance endeavoured to persuade a man, of the name of Sims, to robberies with him, partk. eularly to steal logs from gansworth-quay, and to break open warehouses. He was re-committed for further examination on Tuesday, the 19th lust, The apartments •in St. James's Palace, founerly the nursery for the junior branches of the AteVAT , . FAMILY, while .uutler the care and Whip) of tiPtii- CIiARLOTTE FINCH, arc now undergoing and. furnishing, for the reception of the Puke of Sussex. Authentic intelligence has been received by tht Underwriters at Lloyd's respeding the capture of some American Vessols by the Atgerines in th 4 'Mediterranean. Dispatches were received yesterday at .the miralty, froth Barbadoes, dated the 17111 of Novetn: ber, giving an account _of the alarming . success. ol. French Privateers in that quarter. His Royal Highness the P4INCE of WALes, at tended by Major'Baron EtIEN ' lett' Carleto n Hong, yesterday, at tWelie o'clock, for Bright.on. On Thursdarlask was fought, at Horsington, Soo • merset, a pitched battle between Hazard, a butcher, and Stacey, a shoemaker, two noted bruisers.. The • combatants entered a large ring, with their seconds and bottle-holders : Tom Hazard, a sailor, second ed his brother, and. Clarke seconded Stacey. The ' contest ct)ntiiiLted with tittle variation till the both round; when Stacey sprained his wrist'so badly, that he ceukl not:mika a blow with his right hand; and afteroine more severe rounds, and appearing very weak , te,,ak4,llp, repeated request of - the . Gentle* men present, in.. A dispute having taken place between the two seconds; a challenge was glittno and accepted . ; and alter. the above was decided, they set-tO, When another very severe contest took place. Aftcr 32 bard-tbught rounds, ..vitiory was declared in favoer .of Hazard. Several amateurs and Gentlemen present declared, that in all the tpatchesqtg . * ever witnessed, they never saw two harder FO:lpsis., The former lasted an hour and 16 minutes, antic the latter 52 minutes. In thethurch-yard at Dunstable, Bedfordshire , is an epit4ph on a woman who had nineteen children at five births , :in the following manner:—At the three first birth's; three peb, tiro; sad a t the two . next, five each